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Securly Discern: The Future of AI in Education has Arrived

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The future of AI in education The launch of Securly Discern is just the beginning, says Josh Knutson of the future of Securly utilizing AI within the education and edtech space. “Discern allows us to tell different stories; we can get an incredibly robust picture of a school’s climate and fill any gap in a data story. .”

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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It was early in offering programs that highlighted edtech,” says Frank Catalano, an independent industry strategist who previously served on SIIA’s education board. “It It was essentially the go-to association for the edtech industry.” edtech companies, marking the highest tally of the decade. billion in U.S.

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Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School

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Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School You’re working tirelessly to ensure a smooth transition back-to-school and your edtech ecosystem plays a big role. So, you might have noticed in the demo that we have the ability to set the school hours, so that works when you’re in school, right?

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. “With close to 85% reading below grade level, there are implications for what may or may not be happening in the home. Now they do.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.” Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” In fact, Axios suggests that Google might have staged the demo it gave of its new voice assistant.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last.

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